What Back to School Looked Like in the '90s
Kids Today Will Never Understand — Here's What Back-to-School Looked Like in the '90s
Everyone looks back on their childhood as a "simpler time," but for kids who went to school in the '90s, there's no truer sentiment. School lunches consisted of PB&Js and milk, free time involved reading rather than playing educational games on iPads, and math was, well . . . math (throwing shade your way, Common Core).
Although some things will never change, like kids freaking out over getting to go shopping for school supplies, so much about the '90s looked completely different. If you were a '90s kid, take a stroll down memory lane with us, won't you?
1 First Day of School Outfits Were a Little More Dorky
2 As Were Class Photos on Picture Day
3 You Had a Caboodle Full of Stuff to Get Ready With in the A.M.
4 Including These Butterfly Clips
5 And 8 Million of These Lip Smackers Balms
6 You Won the Jackpot If Your Mom Packed Dunkaroos For Lunch
7 With a Yoo-Hoo to Wash Them Down
8 All in Your Plastic Lunch Box With Matching Thermos
9 At Recess, You’d Make One of These Cootie Catchers to Tell Fortunes
10 Or Trade Pokémon Cards
11 All of Your School Supplies Would Be Lisa Frank
12 And You Couldn’t Live Without a New Trapper Keeper
13 No Matter How Many Crayons You Had at Home, You Needed a Fresh Box For School
14 And a Pack of Mr. Sketch Scented Markers
15 AND Some Stacking Pencils
16 You Kept Them All in a Space Maker
17 Many of Your Lessons Used an Overhead Projector
18 You's Watch a Movie on VHS That Applied to the Lesson
In a combo TV/VCR that never actually worked, usually.
19 For Many Assignments, You Had to Write in Cursive
And if you made a mistake, you had to start over.
20 When You Finished an Assignment Early, You'd Free Read One of These Books
Or something from the Goosebumps series, The Boxcar Children, or another book series (get a copy of any of the ones shown for just $2 on Etsy.
21 You'd Try to Sneak in Some Time With Your Tamagotchi Under Your Desk
22 You'd “Work" in a Computer Lab That Looked Like This During Library
23 You'd Save Your Typed Assignments to These Floppy Disks
24 You'd Learn How to Type With Mavis Beacon
25 You'd Try to Spend the Whole Class Playing Your Friends in Oregon Trail
26 Or Attempt to Play Minesweeper Solo
27 School Trips Weren’t All That Involved
28 Class Birthdays Were at a Chuck-E-Cheese 9 Times Out of 10
